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  1. Paul in the woods
    It's hard to tell from the photo but it looks more like a insect/spider cocoon than fungus to me.
  2. Paul in the woods
    If it were my garden I would say voles as we have loads of them and I've actually watched them fell and cut up stems like that. But slugs can also seem to cut and chop stuff up rather than nibble.
  3. Paul in the woods
    I have a couple of dozen mixed Eucs I've grown from seed and all but one survived the winter. One has died back but is shooting from the base. I would have thought it was the cold or even damp and cold that's caused problems. However, although Eucs are known for thriving in dry conditions I wonder if UK grown ones get their roots down as deep as native ones or if they stay shallow as it's normally wet here?
  4. Paul in the woods
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/box-tree-caterpillar
  5. Paul in the woods
    Do you know what tree is and then length of the critters? The best I can come up with is a one of the pine aphids, something like Cinara piceae, greater black spruce bark aphid looks a possibility. https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/hemiptera/sternorrhyncha/aphidoidea/aphididae/lachninae/eulachnini/cinara/cinara-piceae/ Here's an enlarged pic of a couple of them from your pic.
  6. Paul in the woods
    Exuvia by the looks of them. The empty skin of a damselfly, dragonfly or similar, after it's changed from a nymph to a fly.
  7. Paul in the woods
    Will you not just be fighting with the saw, either being pulled to the log or the log to the saw?
  8. Paul in the woods
    Any pics of the flowers or any young fruits? Looks like a crab apple, malus, of some sort to me.
  9. Paul in the woods
    I thought the general rule is to cut the grass once the seeds from the wild flowers have set and had a chance to fall. Then remove all the clippings to gradually reduce fertility. The time of the cut will depend on the wild flowers youre growing, your location and the year - many things seem to be a week or two late this year. Obviously don't add any fertiliser. The RHS has a useful guide: https://www.rhs.org.uk/lawns/wildflower-meadow-maintenance
  10. Paul in the woods
    Personally as someone who lives on the edge of a woodland I wouldn't worry about all wildlife. If the logs came from a local farmer the beetles are about anyway. If you dry off the wood and keep the rain off that should stop the logs from being eaten any more. The orange log looks more like alder to me, if it is dry and feels light it's likely to be alder, if it's heavy then oak is more likely.
  11. Paul in the woods
    Fraying is rubbing your antlers against a tree, to scent mark and possibly remove the velvet from new antlers.
  12. Paul in the woods
    The trunk just looks like the apple tree started to produce roots where it touched the ground. If left it should just heal over and be fine, you may wish to keep it weed free at the base to keep air circulating.
  13. Paul in the woods
    Any signs of new life? I've got a couple of Evereste crab apples in my orchard and they leaf out very early. This year we had some very strong winds, 80+ mph, and they look terrible. All their leaves were burnt off and hardly any fruit survived. They are showing some fresh leaves now and should recover.
  14. Paul in the woods
    Roe buck fraying by the looks of it.
  15. Paul in the woods
    Did it have any smell? Closest I can think of is a deformed Clathrus ruber, basket stinkhorn.
  16. Paul in the woods
    This might be worth a read, go down to the bottom and it covers nitrogen robbing. Basically unlikely unless the plants are shallow rooted. https://www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/woody-waste-using-as-mulch
  17. Paul in the woods
    My seed came from Chiltern Seeds, sadly they dont seem to have any mixed hardy seed but they stock a few others.
  18. Paul in the woods
    @sandspider have any of your Eucs flowered? I've grown a packet of mixed hardy eucalyptus and was surprised to see many flower within a few years. We've not lost any to frost but they get their tops burnt off by the wind as we're exposed. They've grown ok for our soil and would probably do much better elsewhere, I've just no idea what varieties we've ended up with.
  19. Paul in the woods
    I thought motomix does use ultra: "MotoMix uses STIHL HP ultra-premium oil for exceptional engine lubrication and extreme cleanliness. It’s fully synthetic and biodegradable for optimal performance and long service life. MotoMix is user- and engine-friendly thanks to fewer emissions (free from ethanol; almost no olefins and aromatic compounds)."
  20. Paul in the woods
    That doesn't look like wind scorch to me. Mine got badly a scorched by the wind last year and the tips went brown and the leaves at the end of the branches went brown and blew off but the large mature leaves remained green. They recovered well. To my uneducated eye that looks like the tree has died, possibly too much of too little water? I wouldn't rule out herbicides either. As others have said though, if that tree had established well you'd need to cut it back every year, they can be rather rampant and not ideal as a small tree. It might be worth talking to the nursery you bought it from to get their opinion?
  21. Paul in the woods
    Do you have a photo of the tree? I'm curious about its history, was it pot grown or rootballed at all? I've grown quite a few types of euc from seed and they all seem to have very vigorous roots that seem to want to get out of their pots and establish. I would have thought a large pot grown tree would need care to establish and last year was very dry. It might also grow from the base, I gather gunni can be coppiced when young and it will throw out juvenile foliage.
  22. Paul in the woods
    That's interesting, I planted some in my woodland between some Scots in acidic soil and they've done very well. Don't get much fruit though as the birds love them. Ones at home are growing in large pots with acidic soil and chipped Scots as a mulch and they do well with a good harvest when netted.
  23. Paul in the woods
    I agree now, I meant when the questions were first raised so around the 1980s ? Or investing in our own gas supplies rather than relying on imports whilst renewables become more reliable. The current prices are hardly a surprise and we've been very lucky to have such a mild winter far.
  24. Paul in the woods
    I can see a ban on the legal installation of efficient wood burners but not much done to stop the installation of something dodgy or the use of open fires, bonfires etc. I can't help wondering if the successive governments had done a better job then energy costs would be much cheaper and the need for stoves much reduced. By that I mean things like investing in nuclear much sooner if you're going to stop using our own gas and actively encouraging energy efficient buildings rather than paying people to waste energy like they are doing now.
  25. Paul in the woods
    I thought it was to allow some movement so the tree develops a stronger root structure.

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